Privacy Policy

Privacy policy for the usage of your data when visiting our sites

The protection of your individual-related data during the collection, handling and usage while visiting our homepage is extremely important for us. Your data will be secured according to the legal requirements. The following sections describe what information we collect during your visit at the homepage and how these are used:

1. Collection, storage and usage of utilization data
   Every visit on our homepage is storaged in a transkript to have a statistical proof for the access on our sites. Therefore exclusively utilization data is collected which do not allow a conclusion to the person without serious efforts. Recorded are: name of the accessed data, date and time of the access, transfered data volume, notification of successful retrieval, web browser and the site from which you have visited us. Aditionally also the IP addresses of the requesting computers are recorded. The storage serves only internal system related and statistical purposes. 
   
    
2. Personal information
   We collect and use your personal information exclusively for closing the contract, its content structure or changing the contractual relationship as well as for internal Marketing purposes between the company Musikhaus Korn and you. The decision whether to supply us with this information or not rests solely with you and the collection of the personal information is effected if you give them to us during the opening of a customer account, the order process or registration for our newsletter. All personal information will be threated as strictly confidential. Necessary data for the order and transaction process will be stored from us. Sensitive data as your password will be stored in encrypted form ("Hash") so that neither our employees nor other person will be able to read them.
   
   For some business processes, e.g. sending out packages, personal information must be passed on to third parties and is effected exclusively to the postal service authorised with the delivery (e.g. DHL, UPS) or for credit check and credit assessment. Therefore only the necessary data for the transaction of the business process will be passed on.
   
   Do you want to use the services of "PayPal" during the order transaction, we will communicate the necessary order data to this partner. The utilisation of this service is optional. The liability and legal responsability for the content rests solely with the partner "PayPal". Please attend to their data privacy protection codes.
   
   We will not sell, rent or accord your personal information to other service providers. By order of responsable public authorities we have to inform about your data in individual cases. 
   
    
3. Cookies
   While visiting our website a so called "cookie" will be used. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your hard drive, provide your visit cryptographically secured and are necessary for the shopping basket and the order transaction. The cookie does not contain any personal information. It loses its validity 10 minutes after leaving our webiste. Regardless, you can delete the cookie in your browser at any time. 
   
    
4. Utilisation of Google Analytics
   This website uses Google Analytics of Google Inc. for internal statistical purposes. More information to the data privacy regulations of Google Analytics Services you can find at point 8 of the terms of use Google Analytics
   
    
5. Data security
   The transfer of data during the order process as well as in the customer center occurs cryptographically secured by SSL (Secure Socket Layer). This is the most established procedure to provide the privacy of your data. It encrypts your data and assures that it will be communicated to our server exclusively. The company Musikhaus Korn is not liable for mistakes during the data communication, the loss of data or the unauthorised access of third parties. We make every reasonable effort to provide you with a secure environment for the business transaction as well as protect our website and other systems against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation, unauthorised disclosure, dissemination and unauthorised access to your data. In spite of all precautionary measures and the utilisation of the current state of technology, the absolute security of your information cannot be guaranteed. 
   
    
6. Data in internet platforms and guest books
   The publication and communication of personal information and data at your own motive in internet platforms, guest books etc. rests solely with you. 
   
    
7. Social plugins and linking to Social networks
   To prove our offer to be much more interesting for you, there are lodged visible linkings to social networks as e.g. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter at the article sites, amongst others. Through utilisation of this linkings you can share and change information about us and our products with your contacts in the individual networks. Normally, the individual networks collect information as your IP address or data relating to tools, and distribute these data - depending on the individual network - to third parties, e.g. your contacts. Partially, the networks receive the information already during your visit of the individual product, as it was used at Facebook. To the best of our knowledge, we have blocked the approach that individual networks can get your these information without your assistance. Irrespective of this, you change information with the individual networks in any case as soon as you click at one of these links or share contents. 
   
    
8. Information about your data / Disagreement of utilisation for purposes of marketing / Contact
   According to §34 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) you can ask for information, modification or cancellation of your personal information as well as disgree an utilisation for purposes of marketing at any time. For this you may contact our data security administrator by email at datenschutz@musikhaus-korn.de or in writing at the following address:
   
   Musikhaus Korn e.K.
   owner: Denis Korn
   Privacy Officer
   Thomas-Müntzer-Straße 4
   04758 Oschatz
   Germany
   
   
9. Modification of the privacy policy
   We reserve the right to amend the privacy policy with attention to the applicable regulations of data protection at any time. The utilisation of our online offer is subject to the released version of the privacy policy at the time of your visit.